Global Med Technologies(R) Licenses ElDorado(TM) Software Solutions to $3.5 Billion MedStar Health of Baltimore, MD
April 21 2009 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
8-Hospital Organization is Largest Not-For-Profit in Mid-Atlantic
Region DENVER, April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Med
Technologies(R), Inc. ("Global Med" or the "Company") (OTC:GLOB)
(BULLETIN BOARD: GLOB) , an international healthcare information
technology company, today announced that its Wyndgate
Technologies(R) division has licensed its ElDorado Donor(TM) blood
management system and ElDorado Donor Doc(TM) electronic donor
history questionnaire to MedStar Health of Beltsville, Maryland.
MedStar will also be contracting validation services from Global
Med's PeopleMed subsidiary. Terms of the agreement were not
disclosed. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040226/GLOBALMEDLOGO) Kirsten
Alcorn, M.D., Medical Director for MedStar Health Blood Donor
Services, commented, "MedStar Health was interested in a single
donor system which would communicate between donor centers. We also
wanted better information management between donors and
manufacturing. ElDorado Donor blood management software provides
this communication link and supports good manufacturing processes
and quality control of our blood products. Safety in the blood bank
is critical to our organization. The quality control afforded by an
electronic system helps us to maintain high standards and our
patient first philosophy." ElDorado Donor blood management software
was developed as part of an integrated modular system specifically
designed for donor centers and hospitals to increase efficiency and
help enhance blood safety during the manufacture of blood products
for transfusion. ElDorado Donor combines system management, donor
management tools, testing, manufacturing processes and distribution
to allow MedStar a reliable information stream from donation to
final distribution. ElDorado Donor Doc will unite an electronic
pre-donation health history questionnaire with this complex blood
management system to help evaluate donor suitability for donation
prior to processing blood products. Donor Doc's multi-lingual
feature is of particular importance to MedStar Health. In addition
to serving a large Spanish speaking population, MedStar Health has
a sizable hearing-impaired donor group. Gallaudet University, a
world leader in liberal education and career development for deaf
and hard-of-hearing undergraduate students, is a major blood
contributor for MedStar Health. Donor Doc's ability to administer a
pre-donation health history questionnaire electronically provides
Gallaudet students the opportunity to participate in blood drives
without an interpreter. Thomas F. Marcinek, President and COO of
Global Med Technologies, Inc., stated, "We are very pleased that
MedStar Health has shown confidence in Global Med's ability to
deliver advanced donor management systems to their hospitals. This
confidence is confirmation that Global Med's products are highly
respected in the industry." Mr. Marcinek continued, "The ElDorado
products are designed to support the integrated data processing
requirements of small centers to large, complex organizations such
as MedStar Health. Our team is poised to support MedStar with
quality products and excellent customer service that will support
their patient-first philosophy of combining care, compassion and
clinical excellence with an emphasis on customer service." About
MedStar Health MedStar Health is a $3.5 billion not-for-profit
healthcare organization and a community-based network of eight
hospitals and other healthcare services in the Maryland and the
Washington, D.C. region. As the area's largest health system, it is
one of its largest employers, with more than 25,000 associates and
5,000 affiliated physicians. MedStar Health has over 158,000
inpatient admissions and more than one and a half million
outpatient visits each year. MedStar Health's areas of clinical
excellence include cardiology, cardiac surgery, oncology services,
rehabilitation, neurosciences, orthopedic surgery, women's
services, and emergency and trauma services. About Global Med
Technologies(R), Inc. Global Med Technologies, Inc. is an
international healthcare information technology company which
develops regulated and non-regulated products and services for the
healthcare industry. As a leading provider of blood and laboratory
systems and services, Global Med's products are deployed in 20
countries and serve over 2,100 transfusion centers, blood banks and
laboratory sites. Global Med's domestic companies are Wyndgate
Technologies(R), a leader in software products and services for
donor centers and hospital transfusion services; eDonor(R), which
offers web-based donor relationship management systems; and
PeopleMed(TM), Inc., which implements cost-effective software
validation, consulting and compliance solutions to hospitals and
donor centers. Global Med's European subsidiary, Inlog, SA, is a
leading developer of donor center and transfusion management
systems as well as cellular therapy software, laboratory
information systems and quality assurance medical software systems
internationally. For more information about Global Med's products
and services, please call 800-996-3428 or visit
http://www.globalmedtech.com/. This news release may include
statements that constitute forward-looking statements, usually
containing the words "believe," "estimate," "project," "expects" or
similar expressions. These statements are made pursuant to the safe
harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from the forward-looking statements. By making these
forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to
update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of
this news release.
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Investors, Karen Davis, CFO, +1-916-404-8495, , both of Global Med
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